thoix this morning. it's become a lively spot. abc2news.com, our chat room there. we just want to answer some questions a lot of you have been writing in. someone wrote in a reminder for our area hospitals. how hard it is now. they've been asking constantly for people who have four wheeled drive to come in. earlier this week the ceo ugbbc has been in and he's been driving people in. he borrowed a friend's suv to get nurses and patients and

doctors out of the hospital. >> if you have a 4x4 give it to a the nearest one. karen said don't forget me on dartmouth road. it hasn't been touched and the other one 37th street. that's another one that hasn't been touched. our friend marla has been writing in on abc2news.com. she says she's not going to work. her husband went out and assessed the situation and gave it a thumb's down. that's good because she actually fell on the ice. we are telling people to be careful if you're driving but be careful if you're just stepping outside because it is icy and it might be desieving as more snow falls over the ice. take it easy and be careful. >> scott's out in elers burg. 7.5 inches she just measured and he just called work out. if you could chat with us where you work. he said safety first so he's shutting down his business. >> in the meantime let's send it over to mta's mark jones.

he's going to let us know how it's working. >> there's no more train service and no mta commuter bus service. metro subway operating every 30 minutes. light rail trains are operating every 30 minutes from hunt valley to cromwell including bwi but no ten station service. mobility service is only transporting medical dialysis customers and local buss are providing limited service. for the transit team i'm mark jones. >> we were just checking out abc2news.com and while we were chatting somebody just wrote in. wanting to know what the situation is and to be honest we'll find out with us because i don't know, with apartment complexes, who's responsibility it is to clean the parking lots. a lot say they're accommodating disabled people but what is the case when there's all this snow. who's responsibility is it to clear the walks and sidewalks

and a lot of handicap ramps. we're on it. we'll get an answer for you on the apartment complexes. we'll find out. >> she said after the december storm i was in a neighboring state and their snow removal was horrific compared to our snow removal so we're on top of it. that's good. way to go rob yip. keep chatting with us on abc2news.com. you'll find us. >> in the meantime let's send it over to justin. really you're the guy with all of the answers. >> about the weather i do. my parents were actually down in florida. the glutens for punishment and they drove down from new york to florida and came back on sunday. against my suggestion. want to say first hand they actually sent me video outside of d.c. i-95 had chunks of ice on it. as soon as they crossed into maryland they said it was like a brand new world. they said maryland, the baltimore area, as bad as it was and grant wed got a lot of snow. we really should be grateful

for what we have here. the municipalities have an organization and choreography in place to handle what we get better than our surrounding regions. pennsylvania, virginia, delaware doesn't ox get hit as hard. once you get up to new jersey and new york it depends the local municipalities. i want to say that for any officials watching for my personal family and they drove through sunday and they said hands down the best of the roads in the region after that storm and then we've got to deal with this one. this one is going to be worse across most of the area. jamie elers burg what was the gentleman. >> scott you just mentioned 7.5. this really highlights how tough my job is, not my job but all of our meteorologist' job to put out the snow forecast. elers burg came in at 7.5.

it's not a huge place and there's rolling hills and so at 8.5 inches measured last night. scott has 7.5. needless to say you've got more snow than we have in the city and you're getting more snow now and you're going to get more snow on top of that. a wide ranging tally in carol county where it's colder lineboro 10.4 and some reports pushing foot already in york county, pennsylvania. you head further south we range from that 7 to 10 inches across the north side of carol county. tiny town had 7 inches westminster an older report of 5 inches. waiting for an update of that one as well. a lot of reports are from the official spotters in the national weather service and that's how we can delegate from some people who want to top the list and stick their ruler in a snow drift. it's somewhat legitimate in some areas. inches. randalls town 5. parksville

came in with 3.3. that parkville was last night just before 11:00. that's why i 79 the plus there. i know they turned over from katrina to sleet. likely we have more than that. likely we'll double that. the big gamete comes clamoring down on us as we headed through today as the coastal storm. same story aberdeen. aberdeen as expected you turn to that freezing rain and sleet, want to point out cecil county 7.3. elton at 6. and stevensville had 2.5. you had rain. you will go back to snow. this is maryland's most powerful doppler radar highlighting where we have really heavy stuff. that's really stuff back to our west. the yellow shading. if it's not sleet, this is snow coming down over 1 inch to 20 inchesesp hour. on i-70 and this is pushing

near glen and heading towards elket city. it's going to meet owensville and randalls town probably in the next 10 to 40 mississippi. overall we can see maryland's most powerful doppler radar really starting to highlight where we have that wintry mix and it's tough to delegate because it goes from slow to sleet to freezing rain to snow. all of us will go to snow and we're looking at snowfall totals still on target of my original forecast of 12 to 20 inches. higher amounts north and lower amounts south because of the wintry mix. but what you have on the ground, at least in baltimore we should at least double today and on the eastern shore where you got lighter amounts you will get more and heavy snow may last a little bit longer as the storm cranks and pulls away off of the coast this afternoon. but the main issue, i really think the main issue, regardless of how much you

measure and i know that's just for post parity blizzard warning means three hours and 35 miles per hour sustained winds and snowfall at 1/8-inch an hour. we're going to have that most of the day and winds gusting miles per hour. the snow we've already had from saturday and sunday. the snow we've had from last night. the ice we've had this morning and then the snow on top of that will make this storm worst than any other we've seen this season. this is not grandstanding. this is reality. so please prepare for potential power outages because i expect that. >> abc2news.com there's live chats going on. chris wrote in and said if you're going to the store to get milk and eggs. most of them are out. sounds like chris has been to many stores and had no lucks. >> check the expiration. >> now debbie writes in. she's ticked off.

she lives in bagley avenue. she said no plow has come through. they've called 311 and they're pleading for help to get to work. >> i would be ticked off too. >> scott, runza warehouse who was living in wellers burg he said his warehouse isn't savaged. they're trying to keep their workers safe. that's good, scott, we're glad to hear that. in the meantime, abc2news.com, feel free to hit us up there. let's send it out to cherie who has been linking out of a live truck. >> reporter: now we're in edgewood in hartford county where yes, the snow is still coming down. mixed in with a little sleet here and we're overlooking here route 24 and actually you can see one of the guys here. good morning. you can see one of the guys with the little trucks. they're trying to clear out the parking lots in. that's pretty much what we're seeing on the roadways is

people tackling the parking lots of the businesses here. route 24 still a little snow covered. we see one lane on each side that's been cleared. not in the best shape. this year is edgewood road. definitely looks worse than route 24 there. this is actually very, very slick here and we've actually seen a couple of trucks, plow trucks go by here twice in this time that we've been here but it still looks pretty bad so of course the state highway administration they're tackling the main roads first and they move along to the secondary streets. they have about 470 pieces of equipment between baltimore county and hartford county. crews have been working around the clock, trying to get these roads intact and make them safe for drivers but they do ask that if you don't have to be out, don't come out. this gives them a little more time to work on the roadways and try to make it safe so they're like if they could have a little more time to work on them, they would really appreciate that. reporting live in edgewood, now

back to you in the studio. >> thanks, stay with us, we're going to take a quick break. we'll be right back. keep those pictures coming. you can find us online and upload the photos on abc2news.com.

we have a blizzard warning. just heard from shawn. the snowplows are out at the aberdeen proving ground. that's good news but aberdeen in the area we expected to get that freezing rain mixed in so a layer of ice and ice on your

car, ice on top the snow and then it goes back to snow and that freezing rain thing actually mixed in for more of us around baltimore and howard but we've got a blizzard warning that kicks in at 10:00 this morning and goes through 7:00 this evening. winds will be gusting over 40 miles per hour. there will be blowing and drifting snow. stronger winds, even stronger than 40 miles per hour pushing 50 and 60 miles per hour especially out towards the beaches. all of us go over to heavy snow at some point this morning. the winter mode on our radar scope and here really having a tough time but essentially we're going with temperatures near or below freezing from eastin to 32 to 30 degrees in baltimore. more on the blizzard warning and the latest snow totals coming up. right now let's go up to new york and get this morning's tech bites. >> in today's tech bites google adds buzz. on tuesday the giant added new social networking called gmail.

buzz can also be linked to twitter and automatically follows the people you e-mail the most. google will try to filter out messages it sees as boring. barnes and noble's nook is finally available in stores. the electronic book reader live today. barnes and noble has been selling it online since november but has not been able to keep up with demand to offer it in stores. customers can go to the book seller's website. as our gadgets get smaller and smaller it seems like scanners and printers are not keeping pace. the great thing about the scan snap is that it has really smart software built into it. it will work with a mac or pc and they ask you whether you

want to send this to word, to e- mail, to another printer or to contact. so you can decide what you want to do with that scanned item right away. >> you can read katie's full review on the "wall street journal" website. tired of annoying phone menus dial one for this, two for that. as you might expect there's an app for that. has an iphone that maps out a company's phone menu visually allowing you to tap directly onto the department you need so you won't have to listen closely when the menu options change. for information log onto the technology page at abc2news.com. those are your tech bites.

welcome back.

abc2news.com is an area we're checking out all of the time. you can write in and leave your comments. >> we're getting lot. dave lives in dundalk and he has to be in work at 8:00. a doesn't know if he can make it. we have erin who lives in the inner harbor and works and can't make the five minutes trek and fears the icicles coming off of the buildings downtown. >> sure. >> we will try to get your answers at abc2news.com. >> let's go find out about the weather right here. >> i just stepped outside and measured our snow. our new snow total for this storm only about 3 inches. we're going to have more on that coming up. right now want to toss to linda so. she has an important interview with someone who has to go. so let's go to linda right now. >> reporter: we're out here in

locus point in the elements. we have brave folks who are heading into work. this is calvin. hey, calvin. >> how are you doing. >> reporter: how is it looking out there? >> it's not bad driving. it's a little slippery on the side roads, ford avenue where i live and i dug it out pretty good. snowplows are moving. they're trying to work. some of the vehicles would get off of the roadway and park in the designated avenues they would have less problems clearing the roads. i would appreciate them moving it. you've got innovative here. what is all of this snow about? >> i had to remove the snow off of my block so we could have room. all of the sidewalks that i cleared on my side of the street just ran out of room so i had to place it somewhere. this is the best shock. take it down and drop it off and come back and get some more. my neighbors clear off the steeps. they're in the house.

they don't have them in at the moment. help them out. doing the best i can to make sure this happens. >> that's very nice of you and this is your fifth load? >> this is my mother-in-law's road. had to dig them out. so hopefully it won't be so bad out here today. it doesn't seem so bad right now. i work up in december from baltimore and they had it made up there in comparison. i went to virginia on monday and thought it was going to be a mess. wasn't bad at all. >> reporter: stay safe out there and take it easy. i think it's really great what you're doing for your neighbor and your family here. shoveling all of this snow out because we know it's hard. >> bought a snow blower yesterday and i bought a generator just in case. i think it will be okay. said he's doing a good job getting the snow out of here. hopefully back to sunshine next week and stay that way. >> reporter: calvin, you are the man.

be safe this morning. now this is randy. randy, you work at this royal farms here. do you walk to work? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: how is it out there. >> walking is kind of treacherous because it's ice now and you're not too sure of your footing. which way and the cars coming up and down the avenue, some of them tend to think it's a speedway so it's kind of dangerous walking to work. >> reporter: you have a working family. i understand your husband's at work today. where does he work and what does he do? >> he works at glen haven cemetery and he's maintenance. he had to be in there by 3:00 this morning to plow the snow because things still go on. >> reporter: there's funerals today? >> yes, they have two funerals today. they had funerals yesterday. >> reporter: that's amazing in this nowhere that still goes

on, huh? >> yes, it is. they say life goes on. so-- >> reporter: all right, randi, well take it easy and be careful walking north royal farms. we'll come visit you soon. maybe get a coffee. >> happy snow day. >> reporter: you too, stay safe. there are people who still have to work in this. randi had to walk to work. you'll be sharing the roads with some pedestrians because as you can imagine some roads aren't cleared off. randi is driving his wife into work. being a good neighbor and taking it all and dumping it elsewhere at stadium to make room for his neighbor. he's really digging them out. this situation here again. the snow is beginning to fall a lot heavier now. about two here's ago it was just freezing rain. now it's the snow. we still have freezing rain but people tell me it's getting slippery out there. it's getting slick so just be careful. please be careful. we're live in locus point, linda so, abc2 news. >> we want to get to chris. chris wrote in from -- he lives

in rice yes tone. his folks live on martingale. they said for years they took it upon themselves to plow out his own streets and not rely on any of the city plows. they're doing it again. >> somebody else wrote in too that it's just too much. it would be great to have that collaboration and work together but now the snow has been overwhelming and we haven't had a break to do that. the same chris also wrote in that he has not had mail since friday, which is pretty incredible and we've been getting updates from scott. he lives in eldersburg said 7.5 inches there. closed his plant in savage and interestingly enough he actually -- the operation he runs out of savage is a museum gift shop product. they ship out to the smithsonian and museums in new york city. they've been closed since saturday. i guess it would be a good day to take off. >> go online. now we're having neighborhoods talk to neighborhoods and residents talk to residents, talking about how they're

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thanks for joining us right now. a couple of reminders. abc2news.com and forgive us for getting caught reading it but we're trying to get your questions answered. someone wrote in about the apartment complex. we found out it appears most of the situation is you need to check your lease because private apartment complexes are private property so check that out. bunny rights from bateman in the city never touched. stephanie wants us to send a crew down and if the desk is out there listening we better send one over. she said the bel-air road corridor the side streets have not been plowed. we have to get a camera down and report on this. she wants a real visual to show everybody. >> we would love to see it. it's challenging for us too. we have a bi